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Huge FBI facial recognition database falls short on privacy and accuracy, auditor says

The FBI's facial recognition database has 30 million photos in it

Starbucks launches its Outlook add-in for coffee fiends

Now, there's an easier way to send the most boring workplace thank you gift

AT&T to support Wi-Fi calling on the LG G4

More carriers are supporting the service where cellular isn’t available

FBI: Business e-mail scam losses top $3 billion, a 1,300% increase in since Jan.

FBI/IC3 say latest scam variant finds fraudulent requests sent utilizing a business executive’s compromised e-mail

Chef’s open source tool lets applications automate infrastructure provisioning

Google slips to No. 2 in places Millennials want to work

3M unseats Google as most preferred workplace for millennials

128 Technology aims to fix the internet

By making networks ‘session aware’ and ‘deterministic,’ the company says it can improve the quality of transmission and make networks faster

SugarCRM is planning a Siri-like agent named Candace

Its new Sugar Intelligence Service will tap AI and offer predictive analytics

Bluetooth 5 to be introduced on Thursday

The new version of Bluetooth offers twice the speed and four times the range as the current spec

Algolia moves beyond web search to place search

Algolia is branching out and offering Algolia Places, an easy-to-use, global address autocompletion component

This company wants to take on Slack with video messaging for enterprises

Now in beta, Kast is backed by $3 million and a collaboration with Microsoft

This startup may have built the world’s fastest networking switch chip

Barefoot Networks is also making its switch platform completely programmable

Free network software might radically change how routing works

Startup 128 Technology says it can create secure paths across the Internet

Laid-off with a non-compete? Bill would guarantee salary

The pending $67 billion EMC and Dell merger spurs new effort to reform non-compete provisions in Massachusetts

Sapho wants to resolve that enterprise mobile app barrier

Everyone has a different theory about enterprise mobile app enablement. Sapho says its take is the most logical.

Cisco unearths its inner startup culture via companywide innovation contest

Nearly half of Cisco gets involved in Innovate Everywhere Challenge

Virtual reality no longer just a hobby for these Cisco employees

Cisco Enterprise Virtual and Augmented Reality (EVAR) team gets to work

Cost of a data breach: $4 million. Benefits of responding quickly: Priceless.

That's $158 per compromised record, in case you're keeping track

Safari 10 to turn off Flash by default

Safari will no longer tells websites that common legacy plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight are installed on Macs

US company’s China employee allegedly stole code to help local government

Xu Jiaqiang worked for the U.S. company’s operation in China

Major Windows 10 update nears as Microsoft stops adding features

New updates will be focused on bug fixes not flashy new stuff

The future of Office may lie in ‘decomposable’ documents

Julie Larson-Green expects we'll be able to find content based on its component parts

Gartner: Colin Powell says he used insecure email during State Department tenure; Oh and we should vote out Congress

“I stand ready to do the perp walk at any time. It’s not going to happen,” Powell said.

Microsoft covets LinkedIn’s algorithms

They're even more valuable than the data in the $26B deal, says analyst

Microsoft and LinkedIn: A match made in uncool heaven

The profitable but staid maker of Windows and productivity tools buys the career-oriented social network. The two companies are made for each other!

BeagleBone board gets long-overdue Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities

The BeagleBone Green Wireless developer board can now be used for Internet of Things development

U.S. appeals court upholds net neutrality rules, but fight is not over

The decision will be challenged, and the case could drag on for years

Scality launches single-server open source software for S3-compliant storage

Amazon Web Services is the public cloud vendor par excellence, so building solutions that are compliant with S3 approaches is a logical idea

What’s behind CenturyLink buying hybrid cloud vendor ElasticBox

CenturyLink is looking to play with big cloud vendors by focusing on hybrid

Deutsche Bank: Nearly a third of finance workloads could hit cloud in 3 years

Big banks’ public cloud use will grow from “very low” to “material” in the coming years, Deutsche Bank says

Gartner: ‘Insider threat is alive and well on the dark Web’

Gartner says to spot low-level insiders who have gone bad security pros should look for keywords they search for and IP addresses and URLs they seek out on the Dark Web

Nokia hopes its new IoT platform, Impact, will be a hit

Nokia is pulling together all its connected-device technologies under one umbrella

Gartner: How to make a digital risk plan and sell it to the board

Collaborate with business units when writing the plan, write a pitch in the board’s own language

10 questions about Apple’s WWDC announcements

Apple announced a long list of improvements to its software stack, but none would keep me in the fold if Android offered something dramatically better.

iPhones are about to get plugged into enterprises with Cisco’s help

The partnership will bear fruit later this year

Automation, not cheap labor, is reshaping outsourcing

While Congress and workers debate H-1B visas, virtual labor is ascendant

These are the top 5 productivity improvements from Apple’s WWDC

VoIP, Siri, watchOS and iPad coding top the list

Google goes after SharePoint with new enterprise tools

New search tool and revamped Sites are aimed at improving productivity

Here are 5 reasons Symantec is buying Blue Coat

Symantec is acquiring the Web security provider for $4.6 billion

Linux gaming poised for a boost with new hardware, Vulkan graphics

Dell is releasing new Steam Machines, and AMD will release Linux drivers for its new GPUs

After a slow start, Dell turns up the dial on Steam Machines

Dell introduces two new Steam Machines with Intel's Skylake chips, DDR4 memory and Nvidia GPUs

AT&T and Samsung detail security gaps

Samsung announces new mobile security partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton

A popular cloud privacy bill stalls in the Senate

Sponsors of the email warrant bill pull it after a senator pushes to include expansion of an FBI surveillance program

VMware buys Arkin to help increase virtual networking adoption

Arkin has developed software tools for automatically setting up and controlling virtual networks

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2B to expand its business products

LinkedIn will remain largely independent, and its CEO will report to Satya Nadella

Machine learning could help companies react faster to ransomware

Exabeam uses machine learning, behavior analytics to help companies contain ransomware infections

Microsoft’s open source .Net Foundation eats Cake

Cake allows .Net developers to write build scripts in C# and run them on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X

Apple: Want apps? Then subscribe

Company risks inflicting 'subscription fatigue' on customers

Study: Most companies can’t protect confidential documents

A majority of companies don't have the technology in place to keep employees from sharing confidential documents, according to a study released today

Recorded Future aligns with other threat intelligence vendors

The goal is faster, smarter incident responses